Kecmanović was rector of the University of Sarajevo from 1988 until 1991. He has resided in Belgrade, Serbia since 1992.
Early life and academic career
Kecmanović was born in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia on 9 September 1947. He graduated in sociology in 1971 as a student of the generation, and in political science in 1973, from the University of Sarajevo, after which he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Political Science. He received his doctorate in "Convergence of Political Systems" in 1975. In 1976, Kecmanović became an assistant professor at the same Faculty, an associate professor in 1979, becoming a full professor in 1984. Until the Bosnian War and the breakup of Yugoslavia, he was a professor of political science and dean of the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo. He was rector of the University of Sarajevo from 1988 until 1991. In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan.[1]
In 1990, at the last Yugoslav Presidency elections, Kecmanović was elected member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, but was immediately removed from that office through the State Security Service, under the pretext of "insufficient security culture".
